Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome was a sexy, glibly written story about a young prostitute that lacked entirely the large significance claimed for it. Stronger and better stuff was Elio Vittorini's In Sicily, a sad, smoldering look at Italian poverty and hopelessness under Mussolini. It came with a blessing from Ernest Hemingway, who had postponed his own long-awaited postwar novel to whip out a short one promised for the summer of 1950 under the marathon title, Across the River and into the Trees...
...Varsity B squash team dropped a close match to the University Club Blues, 3 to 2, yesterday afternoon at the Hemingway Gymnasium, while the Varsity C team defeated the Newton Square Squash and Tennis Club by the same score...
...there is any rhetoric or fancy writing that puts you off at the beginning or the end," says Ernest Hemingway in his introductory puff to this novel of Italy in the '30s, "just ram through it." Hemingway is wrong in his warning about where the "rhetoric" is to be found-it comes in the middle, and in cascades-but his advice is still worth taking...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...rest of the Advocate--and it is, unfortunately, the really literary part--is of negligible value. A poorly developed story by Aristides Stavrolakes, "Sportsmen," contains a certain amount of realistic dialogue, stemming from Hemingway, between a weak personality who owns a barbershop and a couple of sinister characters who want to but it from him as dishonestly as possible...